Neuropsychology

Department of Psychiatry

Nagoya City University

Medical School

Mizuho-cho, Mizuho-ku, Nagoya

467-8601 JAPAN

Phone: +81-52-853-8271

FAx: +81-52-852-0837

Research from our Higher Brain Function Clinic and affiliated groups:

Nakaaki, S., Murata, Y., Sato, J., Shinagawa, Y., Hongo, J., Tatsumi, H., Hirono, N., Mimura, M. & Furukawa, T. A. (in press) Association between apathy/depression and executive function in patients with Alzheimer disease. International Psychogeriatrics.

Nakaaki, S., Murata, Y. & Furukawa, T. A. (in press) Efficacy of olanzapine augmentation of paroxetine therapy in patients with severe body dysmorphic disorder. Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences.

Sato, J., Nakaaki, S., Matsui, T., Murata, Y., Shinagawa, Y., Hongo, J., Tatsumi, H., Akechi, T. & Furukawa, T. A. (in press) Two dimensions of anosognosia in patients with Alzheimer's Disease: a study of the reliability and validity of the Japanese version of the Anosognosia Questionnaire for Dementia. Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences.

Azuma, H., Fujita, A., Otsuki, K., Nakano, Y., Kamao, T., Nakamura, C., Fujioi, J., Otake, H., Nishigaki, M., Suzuki, M., Kataoka, M., Matsuzawa, T., Sonoda, M., Nakaaki, S., Murata, Y., Akechi, T. & Furukawa, T. A. (in press) Ictal electroencephalographic correlates of post-treatment neuropsychological changes in electroconvulsive therapy: a hypothesis-generation study. Journal of ECT.

Nakaaki, S., Murata, Y., Sato, J., Shinagawa, Y., Hongo, J., Tatsumi, H., Hirono, N., Mimura, M. & Furukawa, T. A. (in press) Impact of depression on insight into memory capacity in patients with Alzheimer disease. Alzheimer Disease and Associated Disorders.

Nakaaki, S., Murata, Y., Sato, J., Shinagawa, Y., Hongo, J., Matsui, T., Tatsumi, H. & Furukawa, T. A. (2007) A case of late -onset obsessive compulsive disorder developing frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD). Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, 19, 487-488.

Nakaaki, S., Murata, Y., Sato, J., Shinagawa, Y., Hongo, J., Matsui, T. & Furukawa, T. A. (2007) A case of frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD) with panic attack as the first symptom. Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, 19, 485-487.

Shinagawa, Y., Nakaaki, S., Hongo, J., Murata, Y., Sato, J., Matsui, T., Tatsumi, H., Akechi, T. & Furukawa, T. A. (2007) Reliability and validity of the Japanese version of the Dysexecutive Questionnaire (DEX) in Alzheimer's disease: validation of a behavioral rating scale to assess dysexecutive symptoms in Japanese patients with Alzheimer's disease. International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 22, 951-956.

Nakaaki, S., Murata, Y., Sato, J., Shinagawa, Y., Hongo, J., Tatsumi, H., Mimura, M. & Furukawa, T. A. (2007) Impairment of Decision-making Cognition in a Case of Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration (FTLD) Presenting With Pathologic Gambling and Hoarding as the Initial Symptoms. Cogn Behav Neurol, 20, 121-125.

Omori, I. M., Murata, Y., Yamanishi, T., Nakaaki, S., Akechi, T., Mikuni, M. & Furukawa, T. A. (2007) The differential impact of executive attention dysfunction on episodic memory in obsessive-compulsive disorder patients with checking symptoms vs. those with washing symptoms. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 41, 776-784.

Nakaaki, S., Murata, Y., Sato, J., Shinagawa, Y., Tatsumi, H., Hirono, N. & Furukawa, T. A. (2007) Greater Impairment of Ability in the Divided Attention Task Is Seen in Alzheimer's Disease Patients with Depression than in Those without Depression. Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders, 23, 231-240.

Nakaaki, S., Murata, Y., Sato, J., Shinagawa, Y., Matsui, T., Tatsumi, H. & Furukawa, T. A. (2007) Reliability and validity of the Japanese version of the Frontal Assessment Battery in patients with the frontal variant of frontotemporal dementia. Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, 61, 78-83.

Matsui, T., Nakaaki, S., Murata, Y., Sato, J., Shinagawa, Y., Tatsumi, H. & Furukawa, T. A. (2006) Determinants of the quality of life in Alzheimer's disease patients as assessed by the Japanese version of the Quality of LIfe-Alzheimer's Disease (QOL-AD) Scale. Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders, 21, 182-191.

Research projects in progress:

We are currently establishing Japanese versions of scales for QOL, anosognosia and agitation in Alzheimer's disease.